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Charting the sublime, Kim Griggs

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica ed Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864734859 When the explorers in John Martin Leahy’s “In Amundsen’s Tent” scrambled into the tent the Norwegian left after his foray to the South Pole,…

Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 67, Kim Griggs, Spring 2004, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review, Short stories

Footnote to Ron, Vincent O’Sullivan

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Four Short Stories 1931-35 (with an afterword by Rachel Barrowman) R A K Mason The Holloway Press, $75.00, ISBN 0958231346 It is one of the several intriguing aspects of R A K Mason and – as a human trait, a…

Tagged with: Holloway Press, Issue 67, R A K Mason, Rachel Barrowman, Spring 2004, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

What it’s all about, Christina Thompson

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Stonefish Keri Hulme Huia, $34.95, ISBN 1869690885 Keri Hulme’s new collection Stonefish is so unremarkable it sent me back to the bone people to see what all the fuss had been about. How could a Booker Prize-winner produce so slight…

Tagged with: Christina Thompson, Huia, Issue 67, Keri Hulme, Spring 2004
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Escape from Warsaw, John McIntyre

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Waimea College Library, Richmond, 1965. I was no great visitor to libraries prior to this, an era when children’s literature was more worthy than enticing, but it was to become my sanctuary for my first unconfident year of secondary school…

Tagged with: Issue 67, John McIntyre, Spring 2004
Posted in Imprints

Always with us, Alison Gray

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Society and Politics: New Zealand Social Policy Grant Duncan Pearson Sprint Print Prentice Hall, $29.95, ISBN 1877258962 Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 187727657X Greed, blame,…

Tagged with: Alison Gray, Bronwyn Dalley, Grant Duncan, Issue 67, Margaret Tennant, Otago University Press, Pearson Sprint Print Prentice Hall, Spring 2004
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

God’s very own local history, Paul Morris

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Building God’s Own Country: Historical Essays on Religions in New Zealand ed John Stenhouse and Jane Thomson Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276928 In a recent article Otago University’s John Stenhouse forcefully contended that New Zealand historians have largely overlooked…

Tagged with: Issue 67, Jane Thomson, John Stenhouse, Otago University Press, Paul Morris, Spring 2004
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review